JET MASTER (from At A Glance with Lance Benson - 28/08/07)
He is also most magnanimous in his praise of Champion Sire, Jet Master:
“The knockout story of 2007 has been the emergence of Jet Master as a stallion of serious consequence.For all the fine achievements of Fort Wood and Western Winter, in terms of international parallels, you have to go back to Northern Dancer’s early crops in the sixties to find a comparison. Before that rewind to Hyperion in the 1940’s.” He goes on to put exhorbitant stallion service fees into perspective: “By contrast, we read recently that the Big Five as they’ve come to be dubbed, have produced very few Three Year Old Stakes winners between them, and one wonders how much that has to do with the fact that service fees are getting beyond the reach of the genuine breeder.No doubt stallions of such considerable class will continue to get runners of stature, and may yet prove otherwise, but we’ve been there ourselves, and we’ve known history’s judgement.
Consequently our policy of setting our fees within the reach of most proper students of the art, will be maintained for as long as it’s in our power to do so. Why, Summerhill is a monument to the small breeder, and for as long as he has a cause, we’ll be his Champion.”

Europe Next For Mythical Flight? 15/05/07
HE fastest horse in South African racing history isheading for Europe, with York a likely first stop.
Mythical Flight, who stopped the clock at 54.96sec, the country’s quickest-ever time for 5f, in last Saturday’s Computaform Sprint at Turffontein, is being lined up to take the place of National Colour, who has been ruled out of a European campaign by injury.
National Colour won the same Grade 1 event last year for owner Chris van Niekerk and trainer Sean Tarry, who shipped her to Dubai as part of fellow trainer Mike de Kock’s raiding party, with the intention of extending her travels to take in this year’s top European sprints.
However, after winning on her Dubai debut, she flopped in the Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen on World Cup night. Subsequent veterinary examination revealed she had chipped both knees.
Tarry said that she had undergone successful operations in Dubai to remove the chips.
The four-year-old is due to come to Newmarket next month to join de Kock’s satellite team in the Geoffrey Wragg yard, but she will continue her recuperation before returning to Dubai at the end of the year, and will not race in England.
Instead, Niekerk and Tarry have decided to replace her with southern hemisphere three-year-old Mythical Flight, who is unbeaten in seven races, 12 months earlier than might have been the case.
Tarry said: “I’m having a meeting with my owner later this week to decide how we want to play the programme
“There’s another Grade 1 in South Africa for Mythical Flight next month, and if we go for that, the quarantine rules mean we will have to miss the Nunthorpe at York in August. If that’s the case, we’ll go for the Prix de l’Abbaye, and then on to Hong Kong in December.
“But if we decide we’ve nothing else to prove at home, we’ll put him straight into quarantine, so that we can run at York, before going on to France and the Far East.”
With de Kock, who is aiming his UAE Derby winner Asiatic Boy at the Juddmonte International Stakes at York’s August meeting, on hand to offer advice, England appears to be a short price as the venue for Mythical Flight’s first race outside his home country, especially if the York executive responds to the prospect.
Tarry added: “He’s a very exciting horse, but we won’t know how goodhe is until he’s raced against some of the best in the world.”
Mythical Flight, a gelded son of fast emerging home-bred stallion Jet Master, extended his unbeaten run by making all for a two-and-a-half length win on Saturday.
Afterwards jockey Brett Smith said: “His cruising speed is amazing, yet he’s still got a kick at the end.”
Harold Wright
(Racing Post, UK)

Jet Master Winner In Dubai
Shavoulin set out to try and make all but had no answer to the late challenge of the previously unraced Satish Seemar duo - Dubai Jewel ridden by Ryan Moore and winner Heart Beat, ridden by Ted Durcan.
Heart Beat, a 3YO son of Jet Master bred by Maine Chance and owned by HH Sheikh Rashid Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, got up in the final 100 metres to win the 1400m Al Tayer Motors Challenge, the highlight of ninth meeting of the Winter Racing Challenge. Heart Beat was bought for R275.000 (SI 3.05), knocked down to Anfield Sports at the 2005 National 2yo Sale. His dam is New Zealand bred Hear My Heart, who won three races around a mile in the colours of Graham Beck, trained by Ormond Ferraris.
Race Four. Al Tayer Motors Challenge, sponsored by the Al Tayer Motors. Thoroughbreds 1,400m. NH 4yo & SH yo+. Prizemoney: AED 100,000. 1st: AED 60,000. 2nd: AED 20,000. 3rd: AED 11,000. 4th: AED 6,000. 5th: AED 3,000
1. HEART BEAT (SAF) 59kgs 3yo b g Jet Master - Heart My Heart (Personal Escort) Owner: Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum Breeder: Maine Chance Farms (PTY) Ltd Trainer: Satish Seemar. Jockey: Ted Durcan
2. DUBAI JEWEL (AUS) 57kgs 3yo b f Fusaichi Pegasus - Steal My Love (Marauding) Owner: Mohammed Yusuf Al Budoor Breeder: Arrowfield Shadai Joint Venture Trainer: Satish Seemar. Jockey: Ryan Moore
3. SHAVOULIN (USA) 55.5kgs 3yo db or br c Johannesburg - Hello Josephine (Take Me Out) Owner: Prime Equestrian Breeder: Mr and Mrs G. David Shashura Trainer: Christian Wroe. Jockey: Paul Eddery
Then came (in order): Desert Danger (IRE), Friarscourt (USA), Lucky Ray (ARG), Maharaja IND), Bheema (IND), Elizabeth's Lad (IND), Snow Clad (AUS), Xiloca (BRZ). All 11 ran.
Margins: 2¾, 2¼, 4¼. Time: 1m 25.03s

French second for Jet Master
LYON-PARILLY, France, 8th, November 17, Alw, Prix Marius Bouret, $25,592, 3&up, 1,300mT (6.46fT), soft, 1:29.94.
1st-ALWAYS KING (FR), B. h. 5, Desert King (Ire)-Always On Time (GB) by Lead On Time. O-Jean Francois Gribomont; B-S.C.E.A. Haras De Bois Carrouges and Mrs. Pascale Menard (Fr); T-Jean-Claude Rouget. 30-11-4-8, $177,280. $23,609 2002 DEAAUG.
2nd—JET EXPRESS (SAF), B. c. 4, Jet Master (SAf)-Outback Romance (SAf), by Sharp Romance. O-James L. Atkinson.
3rd—ZAUBERLEHRLING (IRE), B. h. 5, Big Shuffle—Zauberwelt (GB), by Polar Falcon. O—Stall Osterham.
Margins: nose, 1, 1.

Jet Master - What A Sire!
Following Soft Landing's courageous win against the colts last week and Floatyourboat's excellent performance in the Merchants under top weight, I found myself wondering just how good Jet Master really is.
I was obviously aware that he was doing well but looking at his first crop results I found the stats incredible. He has already produced 10 stakes winners from his first crop. The ten mares that produced these stakes winners had collectively produced one listed race winner before Jet Master had his chance with them. Those ten mares have now produced the winners of 20 stakes races and these runners have only just turned four! I couldn't find another stallion with ten stakes winners in any crop let alone the first.
Both Jet Master's two Gr1 winners are out of unraced mares and most of the other stakes winners are out of 1 or 2 time winners. They run from 1000m to 2400m (at this stage), are mostly a good size, have good limbs and look the part - the only problem with this wonderful horse is getting a booking to him!
Lindi Garlicki, Connemara Stud, by email

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